Overview
- The six-month CHMS operation carries funding of more than €3 million and prioritizes catchments that supply towns such as Ribadavia.
- Six brigades are already on the ground from Valdeorras to Carballeda de Avia, with deployment increasing to 20 teams and about 200 personnel by month’s end.
- Officials warn that autumn rains could wash ash containing metals and hydrocarbons into rivers, yet no supply intake has been confirmed contaminated to date.
- Emergency works include albarradas and fajinas using burned timber and stone, removal of channel obstacles, and reinforcement of capture points to limit sediment transport and flooding.
- Central government representatives criticized the Xunta’s forest-side response as the regional health department earmarked €180,000 to help municipalities fund water-quality testing.